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Anne Gibson inspects her tornado-damaged home in Mena Ark. Battered residents of this western Arkansas town waited for day light to dig out from a "direct hit" by a tornado. (Photo by Mike Wintroath / AP)

Tornado kills 3 in Arkansas

Authorities began a house-to-house search to check on residents after a tornado struck a "direct hit" on this mountain community, killing at least three people, injuring at least 30 others and flattening homes and businesses.

Houston Chronicle

Tornado overhead

ABC News

Suicide truck bombing kills 5 US soldiers in Northern Iraq

The U.S. military says five American soldiers were among the seven people killed in a suicide truck bombing in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

MSNBC

Iraqi truck bombing kills 5 US soldiers

Associated Press

Pirates recapture hostage after escape attempt

The American captain held hostage by four Somali pirates made a desperate escape attempt but was recaptured, said officials.

ABC News

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Standoff shows limits of naval response

Christian Science Monitor

Stakes raised in pirate talks

CBS News

CIA abandons use of contract interrogators at secret prisons

The CIA has stopped using contractors to interrogate prisoners and fired private security guards at the CIA's now-shuttered secret overseas prisons, agency Director Leon Panetta has said.

Forbes

CIA shuts down its secret prisons

BBC

Obama eyes immigration reform

President Barack Obama plans to start addressing the thorny issue of immigration reform this year, including the search for a path to legalize the status of millions of illegal immigrants.

Reuters

SLCPD won't enforce immigration law

Salt Lake Tribune

NATION

N.H. job fair crowds get out of hand

Three generations of job seekers — more than 10,000 — descended on a job fair at a New Hampshire college gym, jamming traffic for miles and forcing organizers to cut off admission after just two hours.

ABC News

Crowds pack New Hampshire job fair

WMUR

Service restored in Silicon Valley after fiber cut

The fiber cut that crippled phone and broadband service and knocked out 911 emergency services in Silicon Valley has been fixed, according to a Twitter post from AT&T.

CNET News

More squatters call foreclosures home

About a dozen advocacy groups around the country are actively moving homeless people into vacant homes, some working in secret and others operating openly.

MSNBC

Giving hope to homeless kids

MSNBC

POLITICS

Obama requests $83.4B for wars

President Barack Obama is seeking an additional $83.4 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, a request that would bring the total cost of the conflicts to more than $900 billion.

Bloomberg

President to ask for $83.4 billion for wars

NY Daily News

Obama uses Bush tactics to finance wars

The Daily Telegraph

Governors get dose of stimulus reality

The list of governors threatening to decline federal stimulus money read like a list of Republicans considering running for president. But what began with a bang is ending with something closer to a whimper.

Politico

HEALTH

Stem cell therapy clears cloudy corneas

Stem cells collected from human corneas restore transparency and don't trigger rejection when injected into scarred and hazy eyes, according to experiments on mice at the University of Pittsburgh.

Science Daily

What you see is what you feel

Stare at a waterfall long enough and nearby stationary objects like rocks and trees seem to drift up. The optical illusion is called motion aftereffect, and it may trick more than just your eyes.

Science

EDUCATION

Online degree programs: How the US can catch up in higher education

In higher education, the U.S. keeps falling further behind other leading nations. Online degrees hold the answer to the U.S. leading the world in education again.

Emailwire

School closings likely in Detroit, financial manager says

More than 20 of Detroit's public schools may close and 600 teachers will be laid off in an attempt to reduce a projected $303 million deficit, the state-appointed financial manager of the schools said.

CNN

Detroit mayoral candidates debate education

Detroit Free Press

LIVING & ENTERTAINMENT

'Rock of Ages' hits Broadway with eighties anthems, hair to spare

"Rock of Ages," a show featuring Eighties hits from Poison, Styx and Journey, made the leap to the Great White Way after a three month off-Broadway stint.

Rolling Stone

YouTube and Universal to launch premium music site

Google's YouTube and Universal Music Group, the world's largest music company, will launch a premium music video Web site trying to get more revenue from YouTube's huge usage.

Reuters

ENVIRONMENT

Obama climate adviser open to geo-engineering for global warming

The global warming situation is so dire that President Obama's chief scientific adviser raised the possibility of "geo-engineering" massive-scale technological fixes to alter the climate.

Guardian

As Copenhagen draws nearer, progress on global warming remains elusive

More than 2,700 delegates from 180 countries met in Bonn preparing for the U.N. summit in Copenhagen, where nations hope to forge a successor to the expiring Kyoto Protocol.

TIME

Columns And Op-Ed

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Are American voters ideologically polarized?

Real Clear Politics

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Surviving spring allergy season

WebMD

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Tax tea party time?

Forbes

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US presidents should bow to no one

Chicago Sun-Times

Column (Kate Michelman):

A system from hell

The Nation

Column (Steve Huntley):

US should bow to no one, not even a king

Chicago Sun-Times

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A storm is gathering. Are you afraid, Christian? Are you afraid 'enough'?

San Francisco Chronicle

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The politics of blame

Real Clear Politics

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Obama's bid for nuke-free world

Christian Science Monitor

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Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss

Salon.com

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Glenn Beck is a fear monger

Huffington Post

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GOOD NEWS

New White House garden will yield soon

First lady Michelle Obama hosted a garden-planting party for elementary school students. The garden may yield the first White House lettuce and spinach within weeks.

Reuters

First lady: White House garden will feed many

YouTube

Inventor turns cardboard boxes into eco-friendly oven

When Jon Bohmer sat down for a simple project, he didn't realize he'd hit a solution to one of the world's biggest problems: a $5 solar-powered oven.

CNN

WORLD

Mass funeral held for 200 earthquake victims in Italy

A state funeral mass for more than 200 Italian earthquake victims was a moment to reflect near devastated L'Aquila.